Your Perfect Wedding at Caleruega
Posted by Lakwatsero in Information, Travelogues on 21. Feb, 2010 | 1 Comment
A day before the Valentines Day of 2010, I attended a wedding of a college friend Donna to Jurick at Transfiguration Chapel of Caleruega in Nasugbu, Batangas. The chapel is merely a short drive from Tagaytay City and with its temperate weather and panoramic view, the place is one of the dream wedding locations for future life partners, and I can say that it really is a great place to celebrate love.
Caleruega is actually a house of prayer and renewal. It is an ideal place for retreats, recollections, youth camps, team buildings, workshops and other activities. But for lovers who have been there, it is a perfect place for their sweetest day.
According to their website, the entirety of the chapel is filled with symbols.
Its façade is a reproduction of the original chapel in Caleruega, Spain. Its hut-shaped roof is in remembrance of the temporary sheds that the apostles wanted to build for Jesus, Moses, and Elijah during the transfiguration (Mt 17:1-8). The seal of the Dominican Province of the Philippines is depicted in stained glass in the upper portion of the chapel’s façade. The seven grapevines entwined in the steel doors of the chapel not only portray Jesus as the vine and we as branches (John 15:5), but also symbolize the seven sacraments. The main altar is a carved tree trunk representing the “stem of Jesse,” mentioned in the Book of the Prophet Isaiah: then a shoot will spring from the stem of Jesse, and a branch from his roots will bear fruit (Is 11:1). The tabernacle is a gentle reminder of the burning bush through which God revealed Himself to Moses in Mt. Sinai (Ex 3:2). The birds carved on the communion table are representations of God’s providence in Matthew 6:26: Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, neither do they reap…and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. The stained glass depicts the Transfiguration of Jesus witnessed by Peter, John, and Luke. With Jesus are Moses and Elijah, two significant instruments of God in the Old Testament (Mat 17:3).
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